Auguste Gendron, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Auguste Gendron

French painter

Date of Birth: 17-Mar-1817

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 11-Jul-1881

Profession: painter

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Auguste Gendron, also known as Ernest Augustin Gendron (17 March 1817 - 12 July 1881) was a French painter. Born in Paris in 1817, he learned painting under Paul Delaroche.
Gendron painted mainly mythological subjects in an academic style, and exhibited at the Salon in Paris for many years.
Between 1844 and 1847, he travelled in Italy with Delaroche and the younger painter Jean-Léon Gérôme.
He won multiple medals at the Salon.
In 1855 he was made a Knight in the Legion of Honour.A series of 12 panels, commissioned for the Palais d'Orsay, was lost after the building was demolished.
Other paintings were commissioned for the State Ministry in Saint-Cloud, and for the Saint Catherine chapel in the St-Gervais-et-St-Protais church.